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Emilie du Châtelet between Leibniz and Newton / Ruth Hagengruber, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Archives internationales d'histoire des idées ; 205.
- Archives internationales d'histoire des idées = International archives of the history of ideas, 0066-6610 ; 205
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise, 1706-1749.
- Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil.
- Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727--Influence.
- Newton, Isaac.
- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716--Influence.
- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm.
- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716.
- Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.
- Science--Philosophy--History--18th century.
- Science.
- Science--History--18th century.
- History.
- Science--Philosophy.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 253 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, [2012]
- Summary:
- Emilie du Ch telet was one of the most influential philosophers of the Enlightenment. Her writings on natural philosophy, physics and mechanics had a decisive impact on the important scientific debates of the 18th century. Most notably, she took a novel and distinctive position in one of the fundamental scientific discourses of the day, the controversy between Newton and Leibniz. The contributors to this volume focus on du Ch telet's synthesis of Newtonian and Leibnitian philosophy. The contributions presented here combine to confirm the work of this exceptional philosopher as an essential contribution to the mediation between empiricist and rationalist positions in the history of science.
- Contents:
- Emilie du Châtelet between Leibniz and Newton / Ruth Hagengruber
- In the spirit of Leibniz : two approaches from 1742 / Hartmut Hecht
- Between Newton and Leibnitz : Emilie du Châtelet and Samuel Clarke / Sarah Hutton
- "Sancti Bernoulli orate pro nobis" : Emilie du Châtelet's rediscovered Essai sur l'optique and her relation to the mathematicians from Basel / Fritz Nagel
- Leonhard Euler and Emilie du Châtelet : on the post-Newtonian development of mechanics / Dieter Suisky
- Leibniz's quantity of force: a heresy? : Emilie du Châtelet's Institutions in the context of the vis viva controversy / Andrea Reichenberger
- From translation to philosophical discourse : Emilie du Châtelet's commentaries on Newton and Leibniz / Ursula Winter.
- Notes:
- Papers presented at a symposium held in 2006, in observance of the 300th birthday of Emilie du Châtelet, at the Forschungszentrum Europäische Aufklärung in Potsdam, Germany.
- Includes a bibliography of works by and about Emilie du Châtelet on pages 207-246.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789400720749
- 9400720742
- 9789400720930
- 9400720939
- 9004222472
- 9789004222472
- OCLC:
- 740630019
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